ABOUT OUO

Welcome to the Official Otley Ukulele Orchestra Blog! We have been playing together since 14th May 2012.

We meet every Monday night at The Woolpack Music and Arts Studios, 14 Bondgate, Otley, LS21 3AB. We do not meet during August and have some weeks off around Easter and Christmas. Please check our Facebook or Twitter for news or email me jen@bighooha.co.uk

SESSION 1 7pm-8pm is a fun sing-a-long session suitable for all abilities. (£5)

SESSION 2 8pm-9pm is more performance based, where we spend longer looking at more detailed arrangements, often with 2 or 3 parts for the ukulele. (£5)

Price for both sessions £6

People of all abilities are welcome to attend either (or both!) sessions. Beginners are welcome and we can lend you a uke for your first session.

Private tuition and beginners courses available – please get in touch jen@bighooha.co.uk

23 responses to “ABOUT OUO”

sorry about late reply…i couldn’t reply to you from my mobile. i have just tried getting the song sheets from the links and it worked for me. have you tried clicking on the blue song titles that are in the actual posts?? if you still can’t access them let me know which ones you want and i will email you directly.

hello!
yes there is one tomorrow – we meet every monday at 6.30pm at the woolpack. you will be most welcome to come! the first session is a fun sing-a-long session and is suitable for learners. i have a ukulele available for your friend to play if they come along too so you can both join in!
if you have any queries please get in touch
jen

Hey Richard, thanks for your comment. Our bass player (Paul) plays either an electro-acoustic bass or a hollow bodied bass guitar. We don’t use a bass ukulele! Hope you can see us in concert sometime! 🙂

Hi. I’m part of the Cambridge ukulele group. I’m hoping to do a spookulele session of our own (this will be number 3) and I was really impressed by your poster advertising your one – perhaps from last year? It had skeletons on it. I don’t suppose you might consider letting me have the artwork so I could adapt it to advertise our own event would you?

I saw your orchestra at leeds festival kirkstall abbey and thoroughly enjoyed listening to you sing and play well done everybody. I am going to try to attend some of your meetings. I would lke to learn to play. What are the facilities like e.g
Are the they accessible to disabled people as i have limited mobiliy.

Dear friends of ukulele!
We are agroup of ukulele players in germany and love to listen to you on you toube and play your songs!
Is it possible to get some tabulaturs from your Songs for playing them here because Otley is too far
Away for a short visit?(although we would love to come!)of course we would pay for that.
Greetings to you from Germany,
Petra Neisius

Hi
Iam in Otley on Monday and would like to come along. I have been playing about a year with a group in Derbyshire .Do I need to download any song sheets etc before monday or are these given out on the night.

looking forward to meeting you all. By the way We used to live in Otley and now my daughter does.
John.

Hi John – you’d be most welcome to join us on Monday from 7pm! I will provide all the sheets you need on the night – this is covered in the cost for the session (£5 for one hour, £6 for two). We look forward to meeting you on Monday! Best wishes, Jen